Coelho: Flores de Musica, Volume 5 Thurner performed by The Choir of

performed by The Choir of Worcester College

Organist and curator of the new edition João Vaz is joined by Capella Patriarchal and Cornetas & Sacabuxas de Lisboa to lend their artistry to this final chapter in an ambitious recording project

that explores the first book of this collection of forty-eight preludes and fugues

revealing layers of seventeenth-century Lutheran devotion and compositional mastery

Coelho: Flores de Musica, Volume 5 Thurner performed by The Choir ofMaria Bayley (harp & soprano) Marco Orsini Brescia (clavichord) Flores de Musica pera o instrumento de tecla & harpa is the only known work of Portuguese composer Manuel Rodrigues Coelho. Printed in Lisbon in 1620 and boasting more than five hundred pages, Coelhos Flores de Musica is one of the largest music works printed in the seventeenth century. Celebrating the 400th anniversary of its original publication, a new edition in three volumes has been